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Christie and Obama have had a warm relationship since Hurricane Sandy decimated the Garden State coastline. Christie was effusive in praising Obama and FEMA’s response to the storm. Christie, who had endorsed GOP nominee Mitt Romney, had previously harshly criticized the president in a prime-time address at the Republican National Convention.

“We’re going to see how he acts moving forward,” Christie said of Obama.

Christie’s bipartisan, get-it-done image as made him immensely popular in New Jersey, where he has a 74 percent approval rating, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. But his embrace of Obama made him less popular with rank-and-file Republicans nationally.